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TWO -WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,319, dated May 27, 1884:.

Application filed January 17, 1884. (Model) To LZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN 0. EACH, of Hillsdale, in the county of Hillsdale and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Road-Carts, of which the following is a full, clear, and, exact description.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cart, except the wheels, constructed with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a hind elevation of the cart. Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the devices employed to suspend the hind end of the body from the shafts, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the spring connecting the front end of the body to the front cross-bar.

The invention relates to carts in which the forward part of the body a is suspended by a single spring, Z), from the front cross-bar, c, the springbeing arranged under the longitudinal center of the body, and the rear part of the body being suspended from the rear ends of the shafts or from a cross-bar mounted on the shafts. I

The present improvement consists of the spring I), clipped loosely to the body at the how (I by the clip e, and extended therefrom by the part f a suitable distance forward and downward from the clip to a stud-bolt, 9, projecting downward from the bottom of the body through an eye in the end of the spring, and having a check-nut, t, each side of the spring, to shift the body up or down and hold it in any position, the bolt 9 also having a checknut, j, screwing up to the under side of the bottom of the body to hold it in position. The bolt 9 may, however, have a collar in the place of the check-nutj, with a nut screwing on in the place of the head. The clip 6 is inserted through holes of the bottom of the body from the upper side, and clamps the spring up to the body by the cross-bar k and nuts Z, holding it firmly and without weakening the spring, as when fastened to the bottom of the body with a bolt passing through a hole in the spring, which weakens it and frequently causes the spring to break. By shifting the nuts t down, and consequently raising bolt g,

spring is forced downward, the cross-bar 7cbeing the fulcrum, and the tendency of the depressed end of the spring is of course to rise, and in so doing the forward part of the body is also raised. When the screws are screwed upward, the opposite effect is produced, as the tendency of the spring is to force the forward part of the body downward. The spring b is connected to the front crossbar, c, by the yoke m, and the front end of the body I now propose to strap to the front crossbar by two flexible safetystraps, n-one at each front corner of the bodywhich is a more substantial arrangement than a single strap in the center. The object of these straps is to relieve the spring b of strain while the occupant is getting into or out of the vehicle, as the weight of the person will cause the spring to be de pressed until the slack of the straps is taken up, when the weight will be transferred to the straps until the person is seated. The spring I) will then return the body to its normal po: sition, to which it has been previously adjusted, as before described.

These improvements are adapted to bodies suspended or mounted in any way at the rear end. For mounting the body on the axle m, I now propose to arrange an elliptic side spring, a 0, under each shaft 1) and on the aXle m, to support the shafts near the front end of the up per portion, a, of the springs, to which they are attached by clips q, while the lower parts, 0, of the spring are clipped to the axle hack of the middle of the spring, said upper and lower parts of the spring being connected together at the front ends by the usual ear and eye pivot joint, 3, and the hind ends of the two members of the spring being connected by a link, I, which makes easy-riding and subplay "to compensate for the thrusts of the stantial springs of simple and cheap construction. The parts 0 of the springs are clipped to the axle m by clips u, crossing the spring and the axle diagonally, and making substantial connection with one clip-yoke. An oval bearing-piece, c, is arranged between the yoke and the spring for better bearing to the yoke than it would have on the fiat spring. I now propose to suspend the hind end of the body a from the shafts p, or a cross-bar behind the body and resting 011 the shafts, by flexible connections, to allow the body sidewheels on the road, which connections may consist of links w, straps, or other suitable devices suspended by clips 00, or other means from the shafts or cross-bar, and holding the body by the arms y, or any suitable device attached to the bottom or sills of the body. When I suspend the body in this way from the shafts, I have the shafts bent inward at the rear ends, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the suspending-links w and arms y will not be thrust into contact with thesprings n 0 by the side motions of the body or the lateral thrusts of the wheels.

It will be seen that with the front of the body connected at the center to the cross-bar c, and the hind part suspended as above described, the body will be effectually relieved of the side-thrusts common to bodies not thus arranged for side-play. These improved means for mounting the body are applicable tostraight bottomed White Chapel bodies which I propose to use.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a road-cart, having the front portion of the body suspended from the front crossbar, 0, by a bow-spring, b, the said spring connected to the bottom of the body at the bow d by a clip, 6, and extended forward of said clip and connected to the stud-bolt g, substantially as described.

2. In a road-cart, having the front portion of the body suspended from the front cross-bar, c, by the bow-spring b, the said spring connected to the bottomof the body at the bow d by a clip, 6, and extended forward of said clip and connected to the stud-bolt g by an eye in the spring and adjusting-nuts c on the bolt, enabling the body to be adjusted with relation to the supporting frame, substantially as described.

3. The body suspended at its forward end from the front cross-bar, c, of the shafts by the longitudinal center spring, 12, and suspended at its back end from the rear ends of the shafts by transverse flexibly-jointed devices for allowing side-play of the bod-y, substantially as described.

4. In a road-cart, the shafts 12, mounted on the axle m by the side springs, n 0, and the body suspended from the shafts by the center spring, I), at the fore end, and by the flexibly: jointed suspending devices at the hind end, substantially as described.

5. In aroad-cart, having the shafts mounted on the axle by side springs, n o, and the hind end of the body suspended from the shafts by flexibly-jointed devices, the hind ends of the shafts bent inward for clearance of the suspending devices and springs, substantially as described.

6. In a road-cart, having the shafts mounted on the axle by elliptic side springs, the shafts clipped to the upper members of the side springs near the front end, and the springs clipped to the axle near the hind ends of the springs, substantially as described.

7. In a road-cart, having the shafts mounted on the axle by elliptic side springs, the shafts clipped to the upper members of the side springs near the front end, and the springs clipped to. the axle near the hind end of the springs, and the two members of the springs connected by an ear and pivot joint at the front end and by a link-joint at the hind end, substantially as described.

8. In a road-cart, having the front end of the body suspended from the cross-bar c by a spring, I), the flexible. safety-straps nv secured to the front of the body at their free ends and connected at their bends to the cross-bar by clips or plates n substantially as described.

JOHN 0. EACH. Witnesses: JOHN A. DEFFLER, M. MOINTYRE. 

